I went to Pomona High School in Arvada, Co. I walked the halls of Columbine, who was in our district. That shooting happened about 5 years after I graduated, but I still knew people whose siblings were in the school during it.

I graduated from MSD, what feels like a million years ago. Freshman year for me was 9/11, so right off the bat there is a great deal of heartache I associate with my experience there. Take nothing away, it has always been a wonderful school, with wonderful teachers, and—even though I haven’t been a part of it for well…

Yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of my own school’s shooting: Northern Illinois University. I was there. Scariest shit of my life, the few minutes I wasn’t sure whether my sister and friends were OK. Didn’t even hear it mentioned once throughout MSNBC’s non-stop coverage yesterday of the recent history of this…

I live probably 200 yards from my high school — the one I graduated from. Just wondering when this comes home to roost there, when the news vans show up, how I’ll answer when someone knocks on the door to ask what I heard or saw, as if it matters. It’s like a weather story now. Something for a lot of people to roll in…

Dunblane happened here twenty odd years ago. We never had a gun culture like the US but there were guns and a lot of people put up a lot of arguments saying that a free country should not restrict decent people. Thankfully, the class photo of the dead children was enough. We never had an NRA to fight - I think now…

Just wanted to stop by and say the bit about the crime reporting - yeah, I feel that, all of it, including the push to not talk about it. I spent a couple years working as an undertaker at an inner city cemetery and I dont know that I’ve ever really gotten over being surrounded by violent death, usually 2-3 people a…

I went to Douglas my Freshman year, then went to Coral Springs HS the next 3 years. My bro-in-law graduated from Douglas. This is extremely sad and scares the shit out of me now that I have 2 daughters, everytime i read or watch about this I can only think of my daughters being in this situation. This is so depressing.

Well I went to Plantation High school, I went to numerous journalism events, baseball and football games and other events at Douglas high and I’m still a resident of Broward County. Maybe it’s because I just graduated high school in 2013 and graduated college last year and I have friends that have relatives of those…

Not that it really matters in comparison to what’s happened to her, but she was really a fantastic swimmer. The only other story about her on this website prior to this was about how she set an “untouchable” world record. (A record that was greatly aided by the rubber suits in use back then, but everybody got to use…

So, Nassar gave cops 20 pages of musculoskeletal anatomy that included 5 pages of images showing a patient wearing underwear demonstrating treatment with a doctor wearing latex gloves and these cops just shrugged. Maddening.

I am a prosecutor, and a doctor was acquitted in my district years ago for raping several teen boys during “medical examinations” despite medical evidence by other local doctors who said that rectal examinations for the common cold were entirely unnecessary. People, police included, are taught to trust and believe in…

Hey John - I’m just going to go ahead and speak for everyone here and say that suspending you, or investigating you, or calling you out, or firing you, does not actually ‘distract’ from the victim’s statements. Quit worrying about that.

As a former competitive gymnast in the state of Michigan this does not surprise me one bit. Geddert was known to be terrible to his gymnasts, and even being a competitor in the same arena I knew and saw from a young age that he was someone who was prone to yelling at his gymnasts, throwing things, etc. I remember my…

Flashback time. In the 90s I wrote several stories for the SF Chronicle & Examiner. They were promptly “rewritten” by a younger, male reporter who knew nothing about sports. I would pitch a story, be told my idea was crummy, then find that some man had be handed the story &, of course, the byline. I gave up after two…

As any media lawyer or journalism professor will tell you, the word “alleged” offers no legal protection if you actually libel someone. Direct attribution, for which is what the author is arguing, is the best course from a legal and ethical perspective: “Three women say John Smith raped them” NOT “John Smith accused …